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Stone Mountain State Park in Georgia is a granite mountain where the soil eroded off the mountain over the years exposing the granite.  For many years the granite was quarried until 1978.  Many buildings in Florida and most other states have granite on the building from Stone Mountain. 

On one side of the mountain is a carving of Robert E Lee, Jefferson Davis, and Stonewall Jackson.  The carving is 90 feet high by 190 feet wide.  The carving was started in 1923 and abandoned in 1928 due to lack of funds.  The state bought the mountain in 1958 to make a park.  Work on the carving resumed in 1964 and finished in 1969.

For the $15 daily parking fee, you can walk the many trails, visit the grist mill and quarry exhibit, view the carving from a terrace, view a lazer light show at night, visit the environmental center, and walk up to the top of the mountain.  The very steep trail to the top is one mile long going from 900 feet elevation to 1,686 feet elevation. I climbed to the top in 37 minutes.

You will have to buy a ticket to take the skylift to the top, or tour the antebellum plantation, or visit the Stone Mountain Museum at Memorial Hall.  A 732 bell Carillon plays twice daily.

 

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